Feorh-lást

Old English Dictionary Entry

Feorh-lást

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 feorh-lást

m. A life-step, step taken to preserve one's life, flight; vītæ vestīgium, gressus vītæ servandæ causå lātus, fŭga :-- He onweg ðanon on nicera mere, fǽge and geflýmed, feorhlástas bær he bore his life-steps away thence to the monsters' mere, death-doomed and put to flight, Beo. Th. 1697; B. 846. feorh-last

Runic Inscription

ᚠᛇᚱᚻ-ᛚᚪᛋᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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